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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Mozart Requiem at Assumption Grotto Saturday - All Souls Day

Assumption Grotto will have a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form on Saturday at 9:30 AM with the Assumption Grotto Choir and Orchestra offering the Mozart Requiem.

This Friday is All Saints, and a Holy Day of Obligation. On Saturday, we have All Souls Day. While not obligatory, it is a true act of mercy to go to Mass and pray for the dead in purgatory.

Here is Fr. Perrone discussing it all from last Sunday's bulletin:

This coming Friday is a holy day of obligation: All Saints Day. Every Catholic is obliged to assist at Mass that day. Our parish schedule will be as on Sundays (6:30 and 9:30 a.m.; 12:00 noon) plus a 7:00 p.m. Mass.

This coming Friday is a holy day of obligation: All Saints Day. Every Catholic is obliged to assist at Mass that day. Our parish schedule will be as on Sundays (6:30 and 9:30 a.m.; 12:00 noon) plus a 7:00 p.m. Mass.

The day following, All Souls Day, November 2, is the day for you to pray for your beloved dead and for all the souls yet detained in purgatory. Masses that morning will begin at 6:00 a.m. and continue on continuously until 8:30 am. At 9:30 a.m. there will be a Solemn High Requiem Mass to the accompaniment of the incomparable Mozart Requiem, the composer’s very last work.

Purgatorial Society envelopes to record the names of your deceased may be found in the pews today. Such persons will be prayed for in the Masses offered for them. Please submit those envelopes today in the collection basket.

Do visit the cemetery November 1-8 to gain the plenary indulgence for the dead. This is one of those benevolent and maternal acts of largesse on the part of holy Church towards her faithful departed that only you can win for them. While making your pious cemetery visit, say some prayers for the dead. You must have no attachment to any sin (Confession plus and Act of Contrition for all your sins would do), you must go to Communion and you must also pray for the intentions of the Pope.

As the Christian faith wanes in our country so the secular and even the demonic gain ascendancy. I’m thinking here of the big to-do over Halloween and the increasingly macabre and occult emphasis given to it. Many of our parish children costume themselves as saints as an antidote to the ghoulish and bizarre goings-on. I should add that there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with having innocent fun about things spooky but only that the limits of due discretion need be observed here–as in all other matters generally.

Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron

St. John of the Cross

Dark Night of the Soul (2.2:3)...

"...the devil causes many to believe in vain visionsand false prophecies; and strives to make them presumethat God and the saints are speaking with them; and they often trust their own fancy. And the devil is also accustomed, in this state, to fill them with presumption and pride, so that they become attracted by vanity and arrogance, and allow themselves to be seen engaging in outward acts which appear holy, such as raptures and other manifestations. Thus they become bold with God, and lose holy fear, which is the key and the custodian of all the virtues; and in some of these souls so many are the falsehoods and deceits which tend to multiply, and so inveterate do they grow, that it is very doubtful if such souls will return to the pure road of virtue and true spirituality."